The bees have been busy in our morning glories

I just noticed this morning that there has been a lot of hybridizing in the morning glories. There are some nice pink/mauve/fushia ones amongst the wild ones, some bright fushia pink ones in among the Dr. Otts, and some delicate pink in some white ones. Many seem to have picked up the darker stripes of Dr. Ott. Makes for interesting vines.

EvaMae - do you have any pictures. I'd be very interested to see the results of this happy-pollination.

Leaflady, were they different species of morning glories that crossed?

leaflady - Can you post any pictures of the different blooms that you have gotten and hopefully show some parts of the plants that would enable an ID of the species that you have growing,both any parent types and the offspring...
There are only less than 5 Ipomoea species known to be able to cross fertilze naturally and produce a new species
1) Ipomoea cordatotriloba and Ipomoea lacunosa = Ipomoea x leucantha

2) Ipomoea peruviana is suspected of being able to cross fertilize with another unidentified species

3)Ipomoea batatas was produced by natural hybridization with other very closely related species in South America and possibly in a separate instance in the South Pacific are... the top botanists in the World are still not completely certain of the origins of all strains of Ipomoea batatas...

4) The common species grown by gardeners like Ipomoea hederacea,Ipomoea purpurea,Ipomoea cocinnea,Ipomoea tricolor and Ipomoea nil have never(!) been discovered to be able to cross fertilize despite many decades of very intensive investigations by seriously trained and equiped botanical researchers around the World

5)Many Families of plants have species that will cross fertilize naturally between species,but the Family Convolvulaceae is not one of them,and in strict terms a true hybrid in Convolvulaceae would be an inter-specific cross resulting in a new species

6) Despite the well intentioned 'fantasies' and grossly mis-informed posters all over the web,I still endeavor to maintain scientifically correct information regarding the Morning Glory Family


I have gathered together 'some' pictures from the PlantFiles database here,that show the sepals which are an important key tool in identifying the species for Everybody to take a good look at once again


Yes,pictures please,especially some side shots of the flowers showing the small leaf-like sepals at the base that are a major key in determining the species...
Here are some pictures from the database showing the sepals used for any legitimate serious identification...
The reason I will continue to post pictures showing the sepals as a key to identification is because there are still(!) alot of people just as consistently posting and depicting very mis-identified Morning Glories...

Ipomoea purpurea
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/542276/

Ipomoea purpurea
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/55122/

Ipomoea purpurea
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/52392/

Ipomoea purpurea
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/22914/

Ipomoea purpurea
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/52398/

Ipomoea purpurea seedpod
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/31407/

Ipomoea nil notice how the sepals elongate on the maturing seedpod and why it is very important to have pictures of all stages of the sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/21747/

Ipomoea nil
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/52406/

Ipomoea nil notice elongated sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/55112/

Ipomoea nil
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/55120/

Ipomoea nil
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/58540/

Ipomoea nil
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/78938/

Ipomoea nil type
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/84351/

Ipomoea hederacea showing sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/7763/

Ipomoea 'hirsuta' an outdated name for Ipomoea hederacea showing sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/9563/

Ipomoea lindhemeri flower sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/81403/

Ipomoea lindhemeri seedpod sepals
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/81989/


Ipomoea tricolor smooth leave and stem
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/14809/

Ipomoea tricolor sideview showing very small sepals at base
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/52390/

Ipomoea species showing partially reflexed seedpods
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/530662/

Ipomoea alba
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/85370/

Ipomoea sagittata
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/82354/

Ipomoea setosa
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=1706017

Ipomoea macrorhiza
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/56550/

This message was edited Sep 9, 2005 3:29 AM